Everyone loves to come on here and complain about the movie studios that have rights to Marvel movies, mainly Fox. It has got me thinking, what would it be like if Marvel had the rights to all their characters from the get go?
Fox:
I will start off with them since they seem to get a lot of heat. First off I will say that I have loved many of the Fox movies, so I may sound a little bias.
X-Men Movies:
X-Men 1
X-Men 2
X-Men 3
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Overall the X-Men movies have been handled very well in my opinion. The exception of X3, I even enjoyed Wolverine more than that. And with rumors of Darren Aronofsky directing the sequel, we should be in for something special.
Fantastic Four:
Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
These movies get a bad rep because of the corny and "childish" themes. The Thing is, in the sense of the word, FF movies were the closest to a Comic Book on screen, exception Watchmen.
Daredevil:
Daredevil
Elektra
Daredevil is on most peoples list of movies they would like to forget. Yes Fox screwed it up, but WB has always had the rights to the DC movies, and they managed to make Batman and Robin (which was worse).
Do you honestly think all of these movies would have been made if marvel had the rights? I can tell you one thing, even though there would be cross over, we probably wouldn't have Wolverine (which some of you may like the idea of) or any other X-Men spin offs.
Universal:
The Hulk:
I really don't need to list this one, but it still is important to mention. Without this movie being made, we would have never seen Ed Norton as the Hulk. Lets face the facts, if this movie didn't suck so much, we could have seen a series done with a piss poor actor that makes a lot of money, but isn't critically successful. Yes in the end Universal gave the rights back. Though is Marvel doing anything like a Hulk sequel? Only time will tell, but when they do, they will have the 3rd Hulk since 03.
Sony:
Spider-man Movies:
Spider-man
Spider-man 2
Spider-man 3
Just like X-men, the first two were well received, but the third one was not so much. This is another one of the situations where a studio had a good thing going and tried for too much. Though 3 wasn't as great as 1 and 2, it was still better that some other CBM's. Now it is getting a reboot. Though I am not for the idea of rebooting the series, it shows one thing, Sony will keep making the movies at a fairly good pace. Do you think Marvel would have gone and done 4? I am sure they would have stopped after the third one.
Ghost Rider:
GR benefited most from the studios buying film rights. Lets face it, there would be no Ghost Rider movie if a studio hadn't bought the rights. He has never been a big name character, and even though this movie wants accepted as well as others, it still did something for the character. Made his name more recognizable.
So what I am trying to say is with the Marvel characters across the board, we are getting more movies and at a quicker rate than Marvel would do. Look at DC. They have all their characters, but since they are just one studio...Warner Brothers, they don't like to make big risks on smaller characters.